Saturday, April 16, 2016

When the violinist enters the stage, everyone in the audience trusts that he actually plays the violin. The other musicians trust that he can play the violin. The conductor trusts that he can play the violin. The violinist isn’t sure if he can play the violin, but he thinks that it would be fun to try now that everyone is so quiet. Then somebody coughs.

The oilskin was once made of sailcloth and a thin layer of tar.Then canvas duck and linseed oil.The words of another century are so beautifulas they take you by the arm and saylet’s get out of the rain.

The hardest book in the world to readis one about a man who gets beaten to deathand he is talented and wonderful and loving and kind, a little crazybut sweet and gentle and goofyand the book is 220 pages